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athens, greece, right? doubt as deadly wildfires leave a path of destruction dangerously close to some of the world's most famous ancient landmarks welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in tel aviv. and you're in the situation room we begin this hour with the race for the white house the democrats choice for vp is fighting back tonight against republican efforts to undermine his us military service record. see as the tasha chen is in los angeles covering tim walz on his first solo campaign appearance since being tapped by common clare harris. natasha walz addressing criticism head-on, tell our viewers what he said walz was addressing comments by his opponent, republican vice presidential candidate j.d vance, when he's vance said that walz had

retired from his battalion just a couple of months before they got an alert that they would be mobilizing to iraq. >> here's how walz address that issue in front of a crowd of 4,000 union members these guys have or even attacking me for my record of service. >> and i just want to say i'm proud to serve my country and i always will be i firmly believe you should never denigrate another person service record. anyone brave enough to put on that uniform for our great country, including my opponent i just have a few simple words. thank you for your service and sacrifice and i did see a lot of people get up off their feet in the audience at that moment and applaud him. >> i spoke to a member afterward from minnesota, actually, a member of this union apps me full of a federal, state, county, local employees, and she said this idea of service and respect for service is extremely important

that she also believes that anyone who has volunteered to serve his country should be respected natasha, what is the walls of message when it comes to american workers yet he definitely went strong on his union history. >> he was a teacher before a member of a union, and he reminded this audience that he is the first person on a presidential ticket. good to have been a union member since ronald reagan. here's what he said donald trump and j.d. >> vance, they see the world very differently than we do the only thing those two guys knows about working people is how to work to take advantage of them. that's what they know about it. >> every single chance they'd gotten they've waged war on workers and their ability to collectively bargain to take that away from them now i talked to a member of this

union from ohio after the fact she's a psychiatric nurse in a hospital and she told me that a lot of people back home in ohio, which is obviously a swing state are having trouble with either candidate trump or harris, and that some people wish there was a third option. i asked her what she would say to people when she went home after this speech, after this convention. and she said she would tell people what kind of a man? tim walz is? she said that he came across as very working class, which resonates with people like her that she feels like he's experienced a blue collar life and she feels that will definitely resonate with ohio's wolf all right, natasha, thank you. and it's actually chen in los angeles for us we appreciate it. i want to go to donald trump's highly touted interview with elon musk right now, this campaign says it helped raise 1 million but even some trump allies are questioning why it happened and why it almost didn't happen. cnn's brian todd is taking a

closer look at all of this for us, brian, how big of an impact did this have? >> well, wolf, according to data from x, more than 1 million x accounts, listened to this conversation, what they got was a 40 plus minute delay. a lot of gushing and not a lot of fact checking the two men did what many analysts expected playing to each other's egos, x owner elon musk for more than two hours and never asking donald trump tough questions, allowing trump's false claims, at least 20 by cnn's count to go unchecked, including this one on what led president biden to drop out of this year's race? >> here's the coup. this was a coup of a president of the united states. he didn't want to leave and they said we can do it the night. oh, we can do it the hard way trump repeatedly leveling personal insults and vice president kamala harris, kamala wouldn't have this conversation. >> she can't because he's not he's not a smart person by the way. >> the conversation on the trump had hailed beforehand as the interview of the century got started more than 40 minutes late musk blamed it on

a so-called distributed denial of service attack, a ddos, which tech experts say occurs when someone tries to overwhelm a service by flooding it. musk blamed trump's enemies for the glitch this massive attack you illustrates. there's a lot of opposition to people just hearing what president trump has to say, media analysts, not only skeptical of that, but questioning whether this was a ddos attack at all, musk fired most of the technical staffers at the company formerly known as twitter. >> he kind of had that's coming other embarrassment after the desantis thing, it shouldn't have happened. >> this should have been ironclad last year when florida governor ron desantis kicked off his failed presidential bid with a twitter spaces event with musk. it was delayed by 25 minutes by technical problems. this time, elon musk took up much of the conversation by simply gushing over we're trump. >> i think we're at a fork in the road of destiny of civilization and i think we

need to take the right path and i think you're right path. >> these two men really kind of reaffirming their views of themselves, right? these are both men who perceived themselves also strong man and as a fighters. and so there's a lot of them kind of propping up each other's image in that regard, trump made several pointed remarks on how he'd reversed the biden years. >> we're going to have the largest deportation in history of this country. >> what does each man get out of this? analysts say trump gets media clicks and attention from younger voters. as for musk, for elon musk, it's been really important to bring trump back to the platform as we know, trump was banned from twitter in 2021. he thinks trump is a very important magnet for audiences and he wants acts to still remain the epicenter of political conversation. >> kamala harris campaign responded to the trump musk conversation by calling them, quote, self obsessed rich guys

who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a live stream in the year 2024, elon musk went on x today to say that he's happy to host harris as well. we reached out to the harris campaign to ask if she would do an interview with elon musk? we haven't heard back wolf i wouldn't hold my breath. >> alright, thanks very much. brian, todd for that report. i want to dig deeper right now with our panel of experts and donie o'sullivan, you're in expert take us inside. how elon musk turned x formerly known as twitter, into a pro trump machine promoting disinformation and hate speech in the process will look, i mean, we shouldn't pretend that x or twitter as it was formerly known, was ever this kind of high haven of just great conversation and no hate and no oh misinformation has always had its problems but really the transformation of this platform and still such a hugely important in influential platform vote in the u.s. >> and around the world on

their mosque is it has just been incredible. of course after january 6, trump had been suspended from twitter as had many election conspiracy theorists, whites, premises, and other people who were sharing haze on the platform. musk basically brought them all back when it comes to musk himself, he has gone down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories himself. he is also, as well as being the owner of the platform. he has the most followers on the platform, 100 90 million followers. and what we've seen over the past few weeks, especially is musk really pushing totally discredited conspiracy theories about voting machines. and also this conspiracy theory that is becoming poplar the far right, and maga circles that undocumented people will vote unmasked it's for democrats in november that is false. there's no evidence for that whatsoever, but that is something that musk is pushing. so you can really see just in terms of bringing characters

like this back and pushing these lies himself, mosque because totally transformed this platform kristen holmes, i know you've been talking to trump's allies and advisers who have actually had some mixed reactions to that conversation with elon musk last night. >> what can you tell us? >> well, wolf, when you talk to his campaign advisers, they explain a situation that they believe is true about the race in november, which is that whoever wins, whether it be harris or donald trump, it's going to be decided by a thin margin and part of what they are trying to do is to expand the electorate in favor of donald trump. and that means reaching out to what they call persuadable voters, people they believe would lean, right, but wouldn't engage in politics in a traditional sense. they're not going to watch the news, they're not going to potentially watch a press conference or a rally, but they are going to watch least potentially an interview with elon musk or they are going to potentially watch a interview with aid and ross, which is something that he did two weeks ago. these are things that donald trump's team are trying

to promote to reach this group of non-traditional voters to bring them to the polls. in november from that standpoint, they believe it was great because they're talking about the viewership and how many people tuned in and how it reached so many people. but when you talk to a number of trump's allies, there's still a lot of concern about the fact that he's not doing the traditional campaigning, particularly at this time when we're seeing this boost in polls were kamala harris, this boost enthusiasm around kamala harris, it is fundamentally a different race and what they want to have donald trump be doing is being out there on the campaign trail talking about policy issues, talking about the economy, talking about immigration. these are issues that donald trump has consistently pulled ahead of joe biden on and issues that they believe that he will pull ahead of kamala harris on if he continues to focus on them, but instead, you get these kind of meandering to our interviews that leave a lot of room for donald trump to go off script and sometimes in a way that could be detrimental to him

with these voters. so that's why you see a split between the advisors and the allies on what exactly donald trump is doing to reach voters jasmine wright is with us as well. >> jasmine harris, his team, troll trump on truth, social. after that glitch on x reposted his own words from 2023, about ron desantis. and i'm quoting now, wow the desanctus twitter launch is a disaster. the whole campaign will be a disaster watch that was what trump said about desantis when he was on when he was on that twitter exchange that after he announced his candidacy, is harris facing criticism for not sitting down for more interviews at the same time? and is that a liability for her? >> yeah. wolf, i think that the vice president is facing criticism for not sitting down, but it's important to point out where that criticism is coming from. his coming from us in the media. obviously, we are people who liked to sit down with folks and power to ask some tough questions, something that we feel is within our

guidance as journalists and it's also well coming from the trump campaign, who want her to sit down because they believe in a lot of ways that maybe she makes mistakes and those unscripted moments trying to kind of put her in a place where she could look bad or she could have a bad interview. something that has happened in the past, particularly we know that first interview with lesser hold her first year as vice president, but because that is where that critic critique is coming from. the media and the trump, i think that's why you're seeing the vice president's campaign really waive it off, dismiss it because they aren't hearing those same concerns are wishes for her to sit down and do an interview or press conference from the american voters who they are very much but so focused on right now, they're not hearing it also from the other elected democratic official, something that we heard after president biden did his debate in june. they obviously wanted him to sit down to show that cognitively, he could take the case and make the case against trump. and so except those are two of the

reasons why we haven't seen her yet and why we may that even see her before the convention. we know when asked last week, when she would do an interview, she said that she had talked to her team about and that they were looking before september. so that's a couple of weeks from now. obviously after the convention, but i think that those are the two main factors in there kind of decision-making yeah. >> good good point. donie, as kristen pointed out, just a little while ago, trump is trying to appeal to non-traditional audiences. you spend a lot of time in this ecosystem. how far of a reach did he have? >> i mean, i think there'll be pretty disappointed with that number last night of only 1 million listeners on x given how much it mosque was touting the reach of this. but you're right, we'll want to i think we are in a majorly different media environment, social media eco system environment. this election cycle than we were last time. and a lot of that actually has to do would after

january 6, a lot of people, including trump, but a lot of his supporters, two were kicked off the major social media platforms. now a lot of them, of course, i've been put back on to those platforms. and what that allowed for was really this creation of a whole alternatives universe of social media platforms like truth, social, but there's many others out there. and lots and lots and lots of americans, millions of americans are getting their news information and misinformation from those platforms yeah, a lot of this information, kristen, let me play one part of trump's conversation that angered labor leaders in the u.s. listen to this you're, the greatest qatar. >> i mean, i look at what you do. you walk in you want me to go? i won't mention the name of the company, but they go on strike and used it. that's okay. you're all gun you're all gone. so every one of you has gone the uaw filed federal labor charges against trump and musk in reaction to that, is

there any concern inside the trump campaign about that? well, look, they put out a statement saying that this was a political stunt and that it was basically fraudulent that they didn't need to be filing these labor charges. i'm only doing so because of politics and of course, as we will know, uaw has endorsed kamala harris. they had endorsed president joe biden and on top of that, the head of uaw, shawn fain, and donald trump have had enough thing, but negative things to say about each other publicly for the last several months, if not years. so it's not surprising that the two are at each other and obviously the concern would be for the rank and file members because donald trump's team and donald trump himself, to an extent know that they're never going to get union leadership behind donald trump. he is, if you talk to any labor expert, not a pro labor or labor president, but what they have tried to do is reach out to those working class voters to those rank and file union members and to some extent they've been incredibly successful, you can, if you ask some of these labor union leaders, they will mitt you that the rank and file often

sides with donald trump that is something that could be a concern with these comments. but when you talk again about labor in general, donald trump is not necessarily pushing a pro labor labor agenda, but what he's pushing is a change in the economy and he believes that reaching out to these working class voters, he can reach them by talking about inflation, by talking about the price of groceries, by talking about the price of gasoline at the pump. and that's how they he thinks that they will be getting these kinds of voters. now obviously again, this could hurt him with them, but that's not entirely the platform he's running on that he would be pro-labor 100% good conversation thanks to all of you. >> appreciate it very, very much. just ahead, there's breaking news and why we why the expected iranian revenge attack on israel hasn't happened. plus a brand new forecast on tropical storm ernesto as it plowed through the caribbean, it could reach hurricane strength within a few hours. stay with us. you're in the situation room cnn is live

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actually be made at those talks. >> and also whether those talks will actually happen. hamas has been sending mixed messages about it it's plans to actually attend and engage in these negotiations. there are still major sticking points, major differences between these two sides. and then of course there is this threat of iranian retaliation, which is still very much looming and should that retaliation come before those talks actually take place depending on the severity of those strikes, depending on what happens on the grounds here in israel, it could derail those talks altogether, or at least potentially postpone them until a later date. but for now, the united states, european countries are trying to bring enormous pressure to bear to keep iran from retaliating before those talks actually happen. and the u.s is also has a number of officials in the region working to try and craft a bridging proposal to try and bridge the difference between the hamas and the israeli positions on these talks. and so ultimately whether or not we can get to those talks will be the critical question. but if we

can wolf there is at least the possibility in the air of progress. and of course so much riding on those negotiations yes. >> so many lives are at stake. there's no doubt about that, jeremy. there's no sign israel is slowing down its military campaign inside of gaza ahead of these talks, right? >> there. certainly is not wolf. we have continued to see israeli strikes across the gaza strip, particularly in central gaza last night and early in the morning, we saw that 32 people were killed overall in gaza by israeli strikes according to the palestinian ministry of health, were already, already getting we'll reports of strikes tonight. once again, but of those 32 people who were killed, 23 people were killed in central gaza. and that will is where we found the father of two newborn twins. absolutely devastated by their loss all us how do you console a man whose whole world has been shattered a man who

hours earlier was locked in the warm embrace of his wife and newborn babies but now cries out in agony, begging to see them one last time. his new horrific reality is too much to bear on both. >> his wife and 12 babies are dead, killed in an israeli strike on their apartment in central gaza. >> according to hospital officials i saw and her brother us or we're just three days old. >> the palestinian ministry of health says they are among 115 infants born and killed during the war in gaza. >> hours earlier, their mother, jomana of pharmacist, was blissfully responding to congratulations and well-wishes on facebook i feel like it was a miracle of hummed duly loss sister. everything is going well jomana, i saw an officer now lie here in a room consumed with mohammed's inconsolable

grief these are the birth certificates it says, while i was getting them, i received a phone call telling me our apartment was targeted and that my wife and children were at al-aqsa hospital neighbors are still sifting through the aftermath of that strike hospital officials say an israeli shell hit the building. the israeli military did not respond to cnn's requests for comments the victims of several other strikes in central gaza also pour into al-aqsa martyrs hospital, or more parents grieve the deaths of their children how can i live after you, my son, this mother cries amid the grief. there is also anger and exasperations including from the dead man's father, adam of biden. >> he hadn't gotten the entire unjust world does not care about this. >> that's all i can say. hassan says, just numbers. we are just numbers, but for god we are martyrs one-by-one. their bodies are brought out of

the morgue. so the living can pray for the dead including nine month-old jamal and his father, who day muhammad is performing the same rituals for his wife and twin babies but prayers offer little comfort for a man who has lost everything for a new father with no children to raise and wolf i think it's just so important that we remember that as we talk about these ceasefire negotiations, these are the lives that we are talking about. >> if there was a ceasefire agreement last week mohamed might still have his wife. you might still have his twin newborn babies to hold tomorrow. but for now, we'll the lives of so many others still pen on those talks will and our deepest condolences to their family, jeremy diamond. thank you very much for that report coming up new information about the apparent hack of the trump campaign, what sources are now telling cnn about the vulnerability

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use the same techniques to hack into the harris-biden campaign. those attempts failed because of a vulnerability introduced in the roger stone's email account they were able to get partway into the trump campaign, but the goal is to get information out things that could be embarrassing compromising interesting. and this is when i say wide aperture, this involves fake news websites that iranian hackers have created some geared for conservative audiences, some geared for liberal audiences fake social media platforms from fake groups advocating things. it's too stir discontent to stir mistrust, to raise doubt in the election system too. to create controversy between opposing ideas as if we don't have enough in the natural course of order. its to wreak havoc as much as they can, to

destabilize democracy. and we've seen it before yes, we have john the u.s. government has not publicly or officially pointed the finger at iran for this hack. why do you think that is? >> well, i think as the fbi goes into this case, there's a complicated relationship there, a with roger stone, who you remember. they arrested in the predawn hours in 2019 with a swat team in fort lauderdale. but also with the statements that donald trump has made about the fbi that campaign has made about the fbi so i think the fbi is holding this very close to the vest as far as the investigation goes, until they're able to say something that they can prove vis-a-vis iran beyond the intelligence that's being gathered but even on sunday night, roger stone ended up tweeting his doubts that the iranians were behind it because the fbi could be

using that as a cover for their own spying. so there's a lot of paranoia here. >> certainly as john miller. thank you very much for your analysis. i want to get some more reaction right now from republican congressman mike lawler of new york, congressman. thank you so much for joining us. how much confidence do you have in the fbi's ability to properly investigate this potential hacking of the trump campaign well, look, the fbi is going to get their investigation underway and hopefully come away with all of the facts and information pertaining to it. >> obviously iran is no friend to the united states under the trump administration, iran was broke donald trump had put secondary sanctions in place with respect to the illicit oil trade between iran and china. and they were for all intensive purposes broken, weren't able

to fund their terrorist regime theme throughout the middle east joe biden came in trying to renegotiate the iran nuclear deal and lifted secondary sanctions on iran. and that's why the iranian oil sale petroleum sales have increased by over $100 billion under joe biden because he is allowed to this illicit oil trade with china. china, of course, purchasing 90% of iranian petroleum and iran is funding hamas, hezbollah, the houthis and other terrorist organizations in the region. iran certainly is no friend to the u.s. and certainly doesn't want to see donald trump back that much is clear because under his administration, they were broke the other day, microsoft was warning of potential hacking by iran against very sensitive sites here in the united states, hillary clinton's campaign,

congressman, as you well remember, was hacked back in the 2016 race the documents were eventually released by wikileaks and reported on by various news organizations. >> this is what trump said at that time. listen to this wikileaks. >> i love wikileaks. >> this wikileaks stuff is unbelievable it tells you the inner heart you got to read. it's been amazing what's coming out on wikileaks. it is wikileaks is fascinating. this wikileaks, it's like a treasure trove now the shoe is on the other foot, congressman, the trump campaign is reportedly urging news organizations not to report on the stolen documents. >> this time is this a hypocritical position to take well, look, i obviously you'd look back to 2016 and i believe much like your reporting here with roger don't believe it was john podesta is emails that were originally hacked and so, you know the safety and security of our elections is

paramount and i think everyone should take that series previously, including former president trump and now president biden and his administration on combating this. >> obviously, iran, china, russia. these are not our friends and their objective is to certainly have interference in our elections. certainly try and so discontent and i think everybody should recognize, obviously, this is not beneficial to the united states. it's not beneficial to our elections. certainly, over the course of campaigns as anybody who's ever been in a campaign knows information coming it's out. reporters in the united states or very good at getting the inside story without leaks like this. but ultimately, we should all want to make sure that there's not foreign interference in our elections. and that iran, an

enemy to the united states and enemy to our ally, israel, who's seeking at this very moment to strike the state of israel. we should be pushing back in combatting this here in israel, i'm here in israel, congressman, the region as you know, is clearly bracing for a retaliatory strike from iran for the killing of a hamas leader in tehran. >> how should the u.s. respond if a iran does attack israel? >> well, i think obviously it's important that president biden continue to move resources to the region, including the uss abraham lincoln, which has already been moved towards the region look, this is a threat iran is an enemy of israel. they're an enemy of the united states their nuclear weapons program that they are desperately seeking to advance is a threat

but we need to reaffirm and re-establish peace not only in the middle east, but around the globe. we are in the most precarious place since world war ii with the threats emanating from russia, from iran, from china in the indo-pacific this unholy alliance that they have engaged in to undermine and destabilize the united states, israel and the free world and i think the united states needs to be prepared to act. you look back to the obama administration, barack obama said there would be a red line in syria, never acted on it you look at obviously the invasion by russia of president biden. at moments, waiting or limiting the ability of ukraine to respond. we need to recognize the threat that we are facing

around the globe and not constricted our allies. and that means getting israel the weapons it needs. now, this administration, since congress passed the supplemental aid package, has been withholding key weapons and ammunitions to israel that needs to stop. israel needs our support in this moment, the united states needs to be prepared to join israel. and strike if necessary, because frankly the threat posed by iran is far bigger than just israel. and when you look at this concerted effort, you look at the illicit oil trade, as i mentioned before, between iran and china. >> and the mind honey that is flowing to fund terrorism. you look at the weaponry that is being sold to russia and their war against ukraine this is serious, and i think the united states needs to be prepared to strike i will leave you with this thought that congressman

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find seventy-year-old sake smart fees, ran away taking only his beloved dogs. >> everything else is now gone this way. my house it was utterly destroyed even the walls fell down. but monfils lost more than his home. he also lost a colleague a 65-year-old woman, who went missing after the evacuation orders, her friends and colleagues say that they were looking for her. she went missing and eventually her body he was found here at a place of work she spent over 20 years of her life at this business and her co-workers are saying how she was talking about going back to him country, back to her daughter's at the end of this year and sadie, they say she just didn't make it and today, we find arose left here by someone that says will remember her dearly more than 700 firefighters, almost 200 vehicles and 35 water bombing aircraft have now managed to

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